At the end of two rounds of voting, the British lawyer Karim Khan was elected to the post • Khan narrowly defeated the Irish candidate, Pergal Gaynor, who is considered the worst option for Israel • Khan participated in the investigation of ISIS atrocities in Iraq and in the genocide trials in Rwanda
International Criminal Court in The Hague // Photo: Gettyimages
The United Nations has tonight (Friday) elected English jurist and lawyer Karim Khan to the post of Attorney General of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Khan won at the end of two rounds of elections, when in the first he managed to beat the Irish candidate, Pergal Gaynor, by a small margin, but did not win votes to win the job.
In the second round, the British defeated his opponent by a large margin, which is considered a very bad candidate for Israel.
The British lawyer, who apparently won the support of Israel, is considered a well-known lawyer in the field of human rights and his name made headlines when he headed a team investigating ISIS crimes in Iraq in 2017. He also served as defense attorney for former Liberian President Charles Taylor and son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. .
Khan will replace Pato Bensuda, a Ghanaian-born lawyer who has played a key role in the tribunal's recognition of Palestine as a state and the tribunal's powers to discuss war crimes allegedly committed by Israel.
Prime Minister Netanyahu condemned the decision, saying: "When the International Court of Justice in The Hague investigates Israel for completely false war crimes, it is refined anti-Semitism. This court was established to prevent atrocities like the Nazi Holocaust against the Jewish people, and now attacks the only state of the Jewish people." .